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Friday, March 23, 2012

Random Happenings

We were planning on meeting with Guardian tomorrow afternoon, but they called to reschedule today because someone "double-booked" the appointment timeframe. Now we are planning on meeting next Friday, March 30th. At this point, I'm just trying to get this meeting over and done with. Electronics aren't really my thing. However, since we have to wait another week, I thought I'd ask you fellow bloggers for some suggestions about locations for extra outlets. A while back I saw a few posts where people suggested putting an outlet in the master closet, but I can't remember why that place was picked. Let me know if you added other places too and if you're happy with your choices!

We also still have to finalize our fireplace stone color. Right now, we are under the impression that we only have two options of stone. When we went last weekend to the model home, these were the selections:



Turns out, after an email our SR sent to her manager, she said that both of these are the same? Buckingham Shadowledge. She told us that there is another option, Tuscan Autumn, which is also a selection for exterior house stone. We'll have to make a drive back to the model home tomorrow to settle this. I'm hoping for the "browner" of the two selections. I am worried that Tuscan Autumn will have too much green in it. I tried looking for other stone fireplace colors on blogs, but I have only seen beautiful pictures! If anyone could help me out with stone choices that you had, that would be great too!

One last final image for the night has to do with our neighborhood!


We are lot 128! Our neighborhood is slightly different as I had mentioned before in one of my first posts. The green lots all had houses built on them from 2006-2009 by a different builder. Ryan came in during 2010 and started filling the spots you can see with numbers. There are about 30-40 other houses around us, but I took a close-up of our street. We are the last lot to fill in our street's circle. It's also awesome to already have existing houses on either side, so even without the house yet we can somewhat tell how close we will be to our neighbors. Every time we have driven through the neighborhood, we have seen several families walking and kids riding bikes. We also met the family across the street and they have three young girls. We are excited about joining a neighborhood with young kids since we have a daughter.

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  1. Is this your first Guardian meeting? If so you don't go over outlet locations. That isn't until your pre drywall meeting. The Guardian meeting is basically a sales pitch where they tell you about all their products & services like security systems, whole home audio, home theatres, etc. We felt they were very very overpriced for everything.
    Thats great about your neighborhood! It's so nice to be in a community filled with kids so everyone can grow up together!

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    1. Yes, it will be the first. We went to see our SR and she clarified that too for us. We don't plan to get many extras with Guardian because that's the vibe we got from reading the blogs. Thanks!! :-)

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  2. Have you decided on your fireplace placement? If there is one change I would make it would be the placement of the fireplace. As it is now it will be on the back side of the house.My wife is ok with this ,my issue is the back of the fireplace is partly on the patio which shrinks the already small patio. If I had to do it again the fireplace would be on the side of the house.

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    1. Yes! We planned for it on the side of the house. In the future, we'd love to put on a deck so that came up about it taking up space back there..I'm sure it'll still look great in your new place! I've been following your progress! Congrats!

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  3. We were the ones who added the outlet to the master closet, it gave us a place to iron that wasnt all tacky in the middle of a wall or attached to a door.

    Your SR will add outlets for you they are an additional item, but Guardian will handle raised TV outlets.

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    1. Thanks for getting back to me! Talked to the SR today...I found out the gourmet island does come with one standard outlet. I think it's funny though that I can get answers to my questions/thoughts much faster from you guys!! I appreciate the help!!!

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    2. Sgt Rich made the observation that an additional outlet on the other side of the island is very convenient as thats the side you sit on and can plug in things like laptops, etc.

      Also an extra one in the garage is useful since the one it comes with is already being used by your sprinkler system I think.

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